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image captionSir Lindsay Hoyle said Julia Clifford would never be forgotten
A tea room in Parliament may be renamed after a popular member of the catering staff who died last week, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said.
Julia Clifford, 54, known to colleagues as Julie, contracted Covid-19 shortly after finishing cancer treatment.
Sir Lindsay has asked the House authorities to consider renaming the Members Tea Room as Julia s Tea Room.
He said Ms Clifford, who joined the Commons staff in 1985, would never, ever be forgotten . The tea room will never be the same, that smiling face, someone who was happy, somebody who used to speak to us, somebody who was always there, no matter how down this House was, said Sir Lindsay.